Hello Summer challenge - extended

Hello everyone! How is your summer going?

Sue Cummings has extended her Hello Summer challenge originally scheduled to close on July 16th to July 26th! Yay! That's six more days (from now) to enter to win $100!!!

Wow!

For details about the challenge, see my previous blog entry HERE, go to Sue's blog HERE or go to the challenge at Oscraps HERE (yes, Oscraps is partially back up. The store and forum are open, but the gallery is still under construction)

I seem to be constantly having computer problems. If my PC isn't breaking down, it's my laptop. When either one works, my software is having problems ... and in the midst of all of this, life goes on and keeps me constantly busy. Oh, so busy!

Anyway ... I've finally completed my first layout for the challenge. I've been working on it for two weeks:
It's a layout of our first (and hopefully not last) trip to the beach this year. The kids all had a BLAST! It was wonderful ... and totally worth the $20 parking charge :)

I used both of Sue Cummings' new releases: Little Bits and Pieces No. 5 and From My Notebook {Summertime} for the frames, mask, paint stroke and wordart. The bubbles and starfish are from Danielle Young's kit, High Tide, the round alpha is Danielle Young's Sea Glass Alpha and the acrylic diamond mat is from Paislee Press' kit, Photogenic - all purchased at Oscraps.com.

I hope you like it! Now go out and create one of your own!!!

~Jessica

"HELLO" Summer Challenge: Win $100!

The amazing Sue Cummings is hosting a challenge! Go to the challenge thread HERE for details.

There are two challenges, actually.

Part One: You remember the FREE quick page (see previous posts for details)? All you have to do is create a layout with it and post the layout to any gallery and then post the link in THIS thread. You will be entered to win $100! Post in another gallery, post the link and you're entered again! Wow!

Part Two: Create a layout using her new Bits & Pieces kit (see previous post)! Same thing. Post in gallery, post link, you're entered! Wow!

You can enter both and as many times as you'd like. It's an amazing opportunity! Woohoo! I'm off to create ...

Contest ends on July 16th, so get going!

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Summertime Sale!

Sue Cummings has just released TWO new kits!



And they're on sale right now (until June 14th) for 50% off!

These kits are perfect for the summer season! So simple, so fun ... I just can't wait to use them!

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June Copycat Challenge

You remember that I was featured for the Oscraps Copycat challenge in June? Well, I meant to post this before the end of June, but forgot ... I guess we've all been a little busy :)

For the original post and details, go to THIS post.

I love summer! I really do. I love spending time outdoors and playing in the sun and in the water and enjoying God's magnificent creation ... but it means less time sitting at your computer and it also means an earlier bed time!

Here is my copy of myself :) I was so happy to be featured, so of course I had to participate!



I switched it around a little and I'm really happy with the results! I used the 52 Inspirations kit Week 23 from Vicki Stegall, stitches and wordart from Sue Cummings and the white epoxy alpha from MMD.

I hope you like it!!!

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Sue Cummings New Release

Sue Cummings has a wonderful new kit coming to Oscraps!!!

Here is a quickpage using the kit:

It's free with the purchase of the kit and also free to newsletter subscribers. Isn't it cute? I just love the flowers :)

Here's what I did with it:

I love summer activities ... except for the really hot and humid weather. But, without that weather, there wouldn't be the need to cool off!

So, head on over to Oscraps and check it out. Also, be sure to stop by Sue's blog and sign up for her newsletter!

I hope you like it!

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You make my Heart Flutter

My brother just recently married his sweetheart :) It was a beautiful wedding and they are a beautiful couple. Here they are last January:
She lived many states away and so the courtship and engagement was very long distance. This is her first visit to our lovely state. I think they wore matching shirts on purpose!

I used many, many Danielle Young kits ... so many. It's really a mish-mosh, hodge-podge ... but I like it :) I hope you do!

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Little Shop of Sketches - Sketch #65

It's time for another wonderful sketch from the lovely Tanya Leigh at Little Shop of Sketches!

Here is Sketch #65:

And here is my layout:

I used Danielle Young's latest kit, Funky Fourth. With such a wonderful, patriotic kit, I decided to finally scrap about my husband's deployment. Here are photos from the sendoff where he and his battalion actually left. We miss him.

I hope you like it!

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Oscraps' June Copycat Challenge - featuring ME!!!

Woohoo! Guess what? I'm featured at Oscraps this month!!! Woohoo! The June copycat challenge features my Sweet and Simple layout:

And the wonderful Wendy, who runs the challenge, developed a FREE template for you to use!!!

So, go over to Oscraps and download it! And then create something wonderful :) Be sure to post once you do so you can be entered in the drawing!!!

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Little Shop of Sketches is BACK!!!

Woohoo! Little Shop of Sketches is BACK!!!

Tanya, the founder of the sketch blog, needed to take a break for personal reasons, but we're back!!! I'm so excited. It was so great to have inspiration and motivation to scrapbook. We all need a little help and little push sometimes :)

So ... without further ado ... here's Sketch #63:

And here's my layout:I had a million different ideas, but these two photos of my youngest really stuck out at me. He's quite the little monkey boy and that smile just melts my heart!

I used a kit from deep in my stash - KAagard who used to be with Oscraps. I love the red alpha :)

You can head over to the Little Shop of Sketches blog and see what the other marvelous and talented ladies have done with the sketch :)

I hope you like it!

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Computer Geek

Danielle Young's new kit Recharged is now available! Woohoo! And it's on SALE!

Here's two layouts I did using this kit:

This is actually my first layout about myself and my computer abilities ... or obsession ... whatever :) I'm glad that I finally took the time to journal about it. As you can see, I wrote a whole page about it and it's barely scratching the surface of my computer geekiness :)

And because this kit is so versatile, I can also do this layout:

About my son and his friendship with my cousin. They're 11 years apart, but they're best buds :)

I love the alpha with this kit! Oh, the possibilities ...

I hope you like them!

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Recharged Giveaway!

Danielle Young has come out with a new kit - Recharged! Here's a sneak peak:

It's coming out on Thursday and if you head on over to her blog, you can enter to win a kit for FREE! Woohoo!!! So head on over and check it out!

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My Little Artist

I'm back! Man, what a week! I've been so busy that it feels like it's been months!

I hope you had a wonderful {i}National Scrapbooking Day! I did absolutely nothing :) But that's ok. Life sometimes gets in the way ... but I have finished this layout! I used the new Danielle Young kit that she came out with for the event:

Everything used is from the Danielle Young Creative Chicks mini kit available at Oscraps. It may not be NSD, but we can still have fun!

I hope you like it!!!

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Happy International Scrapbooking Day!!!

This is a big day ... if you're in to scrapbooking like I am :) There are sales ALL over the place and a million things to do - and that's a good thing!

I wish I had hours and hours to scrap this weekend ... but I don't. I'm actually rather busy this weekend. But ... you can take advantage of all the sales!!! Here's a special one:

Danielle Young is doing an AMAZING giveaway/sale/contest and you should really check it out!!!

And this is FREE!!!

Such an awesome kit ... and it's FREE!!! I can't wait to use it because I have some awesome little artists at my house :)

So get out there and do some scrapping!!!

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My Sweet Girl

This is my sweet girl:

I loved these templates that TaylorMade Designs came out with recently ... this is Taylored Page #5. The paper, label, flourish and staple are from Danielle Young's Blessed Blooms.

I actually only used one paper (such discipline!). It was green and I recolored it purple. This was a challenge for me, but in a good way! I love this look. I love these layouts. It's just not what I actually DO. However, now I've done it and I love it. I think I need to push myself out of my comfort zone a bit more often!

I hope you like it!

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52 Inspirations - Week 17

Looking for some inspiration this week? Head on over to Oscraps and get this week's mini kit from the 52 Inspirations kit! This week's guest designer is Danielle Young.

Here's my layout:

It's about Andrew and his Daddy. While they are separated physically, we talk to him via Skype (Internet video calling). Andrew loves to give his Daddy virtual high-fives (slapping the computer screen) and virtual kisses ... as you see here :)

I hope you like it!

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New Kit! Blessed Blooms

Danielle Young just put out a wonderful new kit! It's called Blessed Blooms:

This kit is being featured at The Daily Scrapper and is only available there now ... but it'll be coming soon to Oscraps (I hope).

Here's a layout I did using it:

I'm living the Blessed and Happy Life :)

I hope you like it!!!

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Have you been doing the Ali Edwards' Week in the Life? It's a completely inspirational idea! I am planning to do it this coming week ... it looks like our schedule will be a little weird anyway, but that's an accurate representation of our life - something new is always thrown in to the works.

I haven't decided whether or not to do a digital or paper album. I'd probably get it done faster and be more likely to do it if I did the digital one ... but I am so in love with paper and I just want to do it!!! However, I am leaning towards digital just for the convenience of it all ... we have a very big month including a Mother's Day project and perhaps I shouldn't try to do too much ...

Anyway ... I hope you like this new kit and my layout and I hope you have had a fabulous week!

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Here's To You!

Danielle Young recently came out with a beautiful kit called Here's To You available at Oscraps. I love this paper! It went perfectly with some photos of my sister and her new husband from their wedding.

What a gorgeous couple! I just love them!

The Here's To You kit is available now along with some wonderful extras! Alphas, box templates, quick pages ... they're positively inspirational!

I hope you like it!

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Strawberry

Thinking about Summer? I am! I can't wait for the warmer weather and the flowers and the swimming and the outdoors fun!

To help put me in the mood, I created this layout of my son enjoying a strawberry from last year:


The paper, mask and wordart are from Sue Cummings. The frame (recolored to red) is a bonus (#4) for the 52 Inspirations Subscription from Sue Cummings and the alpha is an old one I got from KAagard and have no idea where to get now ...

I absolutely LOVE this layout. I love the colors. I love the look. I love the memories :) I couldn't think of a brilliant title ... but this will do :)

I hope you like it!

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A Week In the Life * Giveaways!!!

Wow. Have you seen the giveaways on Ali Edwards' blog? Oh my. They are so wonderful! I hope I get one. You should go and check it out!!!

Now, the cool part ... both Danielle Young and Sue Cummings are featured sponsors! Yay! As a Creative Team member for both of them, I knew it was coming and I can tell you that their contributions are absolutely gorgeous!!!

Danielle Young is a not only a designer at Oscraps, but also with The Daily Digi and TDD is donating a special HUGE collab kit for the giveaway.

The thing is HUGE!!!

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Sue Cummings is a designer at Oscraps and has donated a subscription to the 52 Inspirations. 52 kits in one year - one HUGE kit!!! She also has some really awesome coupons and specials on her BLOG, so go and check them out. There will be several ... every day ... so check back often!!!

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52 Inspirations - Week 6

Sally's Angelworks was the guest designer for Week 6. You can get the 52 Inspirations at Oscraps :) This kit is currently FREE!

I added some frames and word art from Sue Cummings ...


I started out at first with paper, word art and hearts from the kit. And the above layout is my first one. I think it's great, but just as an experiment I added the red background (below) from Sue Cummings and it just made it completely different! With the red background, you don't need the red accents ...

I think they both look great, so I printed out both for my personal scrapbook :)

I hope you like them!

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Remember - next week is the start of the Ali Edwards project, 'A Week in the Life'! HUGE giveaways!!! Check back on MONDAY :)

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